Ireland began providing assistance to Sudan during the 1970s when modernization theory was at the height of its influence; Ireland's bilateral aid program continued in operation in Sudan throughout the 1980s and 1990s, including, significantly, for a period when other western donors (including EU...

This paper provides an overview of the failure of Argentina to benefit long term from export led development in the early and middle decades of the last century. Despite being well positioned to take advantage of significant breakdowns in the international economic system Argentina largely...

Irish government policy in relation to development and humanitarian response has traditionally been presented as sympathetic to developing countries and devoid of strategic self interest. Outside of its bilateral aid programme, Ireland has traditionally had only minor diplomatic relations with...

This paper examines the tension between raison d'etat and morality that exists in US government humanitarian initiatives. It asks whether US humanitarian assistance overseas is truly based on needs alone through a detailed examination of one US government unit dedicated to providing lifesaving...

Angola is a country that has been racked by conflict for the last 40 years. The impact of the conflict on the people of Angola has been devastating. Angola's post-independence conflict has been marked by prolonged involvement of the international community, both during the Cold War and in the...

Under what circumstances can the provision of social services, including that provided as humanitarian assistance, contribute to the management and transformation of civil wars? This dissertation addresses this question through a qualitative comparative analysis of social service provision...

This paper considers the degree to which Venezuela was able to exercise autonomy in foreign political and economic spheres over a 60 year period from the 1930s to the 1960s. An oil rich but relatively weak state, Venezuela succeeded, over time, in carving out increased levels of economic...

This paper reviews the experience of introducing a self-reflective paper assignment into an oil and gas accounting course taught in Almaty, Kazakhstan. The author contends that in developing economies assumptions made in course design in more advanced economies with respect to institutions...

While the conflict enhancing effects of social services, including those provided by humanitarian actors, during civil wars has been relatively well documented, the potential service provision offers for conflict transformation is less well understood. This paper compares the impact of services...